Dirtiest players post 2005 lockout

[weaponomega]

Who are historically known as the dirtiest players who've played post 2005 lockout. The only criteria being that if their career spanned both pre and post lockout, their dirty play continued post lockout.

I have

Matt Cooke
Brad Marchand
Tom Wilson
Chris Pronger
Raffi Torres
PK Subban

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[GlitchMarner]

He's probably not the dirtiest, but I hate Brad Marchand the most. Just such a nuisance. Great player in his prime, though.

I'd say Cooke was the dirtiest. He was a straight up reckless piece of trash. I couldn't stand him.

Corey Perry probably deserves a mention, though I've liked him going back to his days in Junior. I became a fan of his when he was on that 2004-2005 London Knights team and there was no NHL hockey to follow. I never said I was 100% fair...

 

[MadLuke]

Some have a short fuse if provoked (like Malkin), but they would be busy playing hockey if it is an option.

Cooke is probably the most legendary, because unlike a Pronger-Perry that was what defined him.

 

[seventieslord]

Ryan hollweg?

 

[frisco]

Tom Wilson
Jacob Trouba
Raffi Torres
Zac Rinaldo
Steve Downie

My Best-Carey

 

[MXD]

Ryan hollweg?

... The OP was too busy namedropping PK Subban.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

nick cousins probably belongs in a top ten

 

[MadLuke]

Subban at least in his montreal days feel like stretch, was he suspended a single game in his whole career ? He was not Gretzky, Francis or Joe Sakic but in a modest dirty in a 20 years window ?

Ovechkin was suspended 7 times, which for a star with a big leash is a lot, but at the same time never thought of him as a dirty player.

James Neal fit more that bill to me.

 

[njdevils1982]

Subban at least in his montreal days feel like stretch, was he suspended a single game in his whole career ? He was not Gretzky, Francis or Joe Sakic but in a modest dirty in a 20 years window ?

Ovechkin was suspended 7 times, which for a star with a big leash is a lot, but at the same time never thought of him as a dirty player.

James Neal fit more that bill to me.

ovi has been suspended only 3 times for on-ice stuff. (7 games total)

the others are 3 separate times for skipping all-star games and a 1 time team suspension for oversleeping for a practice

he is not a dirty player

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[MadLuke]

only 3 times for on-ice stuff

That make more sense, seeing his name appearing 7 times in a suspension list did not match my recollection. 3 for a over 1200 games a very physical forward being on the normal expectation

 

[weaponomega]

Subban probably should have been suspended more than he was for his continual and frequent slew foots.

 

[MadLuke]

Subban probably should have been suspended more than he was for his continual and frequent slew foots.

Maybe but that would have been more than 0 time right ? A really low base for the conversation of the dirtiest player for someone that played more than 900 nhl games under very high scrutiny as a big star.

Maybe for Mark Stone as well... but if we put is maybe has 2 games suspension he would still be very middle of the road.

How many time Pronger could have in less than 550 games...

We are trying to find people to compete with the Matt Cooke-Marchand-Carcillo of the world here.

 

[jigglysquishy]

Matt Cooke is in a category of his own.

 

[Mickey Marner]

Carcillo was a miscreant.

 

[weaponomega]

Maybe but that would have been more than 0 time right ? A really low base for the conversation of the dirtiest player for someone that played more than 900 nhl games under very high scrutiny as a big star.

Maybe for Mark Stone as well... but if we put is maybe has 2 games suspension he would still be very middle of the road.

How many time Pronger could have in less than 550 games...

We are trying to find people to compete with the Matt Cooke-Marchand-Carcillo of the world here.

That's fair. I won't disagree.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Subban at least in his montreal days feel like stretch, was he suspended a single game in his whole career ? He was not Gretzky, Francis or Joe Sakic but in a modest dirty in a 20 years window ?

Ovechkin was suspended 7 times, which for a star with a big leash is a lot, but at the same time never thought of him as a dirty player.

James Neal fit more that bill to me.

Please, Subban was a walking slew foot.

Add Crosby to the list. He had a multi year stretch where he was really greasy and got away with it. Lots of slashes and slew foots

 

[Boreal01]

Other candidates aside from those already named:

Chris Simon (two 25+ game suspensions in less than a year, somewhat ironically for incidents involving Hollweg and Ruutu)
Scott Hartnell
Steve Ott
Jarkko Ruutu
Trevor Gillies
Brayden McNabb
Nikita Kucherov
Jamie Benn

 

[Finster8]

Chris Chelios nearing the end of his NHL career

 

[Michael Farkas]

Cooke, Tom Wilson, Torres, Trouba, RInaldo having already been mentioned...

Add: Garnet Hathaway.

Brandon Dubinsky pissed me off a good bit. Not sure he quite belongs in this thread, but he's a guy that I always thought, "it'd be nice if an anvil was descending onto him and he only had a comically small umbrella to protect himself..."

 

[DRW895]

Too much unfair mentions of Tom Wilson

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

as we are discussing subban the name that comes to my mind is bryan mccabe, whose hits were endlessly litigated for whether he intentionally or unintentionally stuck out his leg

 

[Hobnobs]

Please, Subban was a walking slew foot.

Add Crosby to the list. He had a multi year stretch where he was really greasy and got away with it. Lots of slashes and slew foots

Neither did enough to warrant being named amongst Hollweg, Cooke, Rinaldo, Marchand, Pronger and Torres

Ill add Kadri to that list as well.

 

[JianYang]

Ryan hollweg?

I saw kovalev play quite often and I never really remember him getting clocked much.

But I do remember kovalev stationed around the boards, and hollweg just makes the decision to smoke him from behind. This wasn't one of those reactionary decisions either.

Another player that needs mention is Patrick Kaleta.

The dangerous ones are the guys who are emotionally unstable and will seek any avenue to release their anger.

 

[MXD]

Patrick Kaleta is another good one that should've been mentionned in the OP, but hey, PK Subban absolutely had to be name-dropped because of reasons.

 

[weaponomega]

Patrick Kaleta is another good one that should've been mentionned in the OP, but hey, PK Subban absolutely had to be name-dropped because of reasons.

Make a counter point of why he shouldn't be included or get over it.